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La città delle donne (VOSTF)
Location
Main screening room
Date
September 5th, 2021
Admission
13 +
Duration
145 min
Cycle
Centennial Anniversary of Fellini

As an institution with a consistent focus on the history of cinema, a comprehensive Federico Fellini retrospective is the least we can do to mark his centennial. He was a great inventor of cinematic forms and a complex artist – paradoxical, tormented, light-hearted, provocative, introspective, brutal, idealistic and jaded all at once. He recreated the world through his lens, while remaining a sharp observer of his contemporaries and the many sensitivities of his time.

Silver Ribbon for Best Director in 1980

City of Women
Directed by
Federico Fellini
Language
VOSTF
Actors
Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers
Origins
Italy, France
Year
1980
Duration
145 min
Genre
Comedy, drama
Rating
13 +
Format
Digital
Synopsis

Fellini often explores narrative art, presenting the protagonist’s life as an allegorical tale of awakening. City of Women is emblematic of that quasi-fantastical vein. The protagonist, played by Mastroianni, visits places where he meets a rich and contrasting series of women who rebuff, berate, shock or astonish him.

City of Women
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Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini was one of the greatest Italian writers and directors of the 20th century, and one of the most illustrious filmmakers in the history of cinema. He won the Palme d'or at Cannes in 1960 for La dolce vita, and took home the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film four times (La strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 ½ and Amarcord), a record he shares with his compatriot Vittorio De Sica. Initially associated with neo-realism, Fellini’s work evolved over the course of the 1960s toward a unique approach related to European modernism, a movement associated with Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky. His films grew increasingly to embrace a proliferation of themes, deliberate artifice and the complete erasure of boundaries between dream, imagination, hallucination and reality. On March 29, 1993, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him a lifetime achievement Oscar, “in recognition of his place as one of the screen’s master storytellers.”

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